Department profile

Career (Paid)EMS Provider

Caldwell Fire and Rescue

Caldwell, ID · Canyon County. Caldwell Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department, 2 stations and 52 total personnel. The department also provides EMS services. According to the HIFLD fire-station federal registry (as of 2026-09), full equipment, coverage, and staffing data are below.

52
Total personnel
2
Stations
Not reported
Fire trucks
Yes
EMS service

The verdict

Caldwell Fire and Rescue pairs top-quartile national personnel with a headcount more than double the Idaho average.

Top 16%
national personnel size
+206%
vs. Idaho average
2
stations

National percentile ranks this department's personnel headcount against every listable U.S. department with reported staffing; the state comparison uses the same personnel figure against its own state's average. Both feed the verdict sentence and the chips above.

C
PlainFireData Composite Score
57/100
Caldwell Fire and Rescue

A staffing, equipment, EMS-integration, and federal-grant-funding composite benchmarked against every other USFA-registered department nationally, not a safety rating, response-time measure, or comparison of fire risk. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.

Staffing capacity C
26 personnel per station (national median 23.5)
Equipment readiness
No vehicle count on file for this department
EMS integration
No EMS staffing breakdown on file
Federal investment
No FEMA AFG grant award on file for this department
52 personnel · 2 stations

Caldwell Fire and Rescue is a Career (Paid) department serving Caldwell, ID (Canyon County), with 2 stations and 52 total personnel. According to HIFLD fire-station registry fields; among listable U.S. departments with reported personnel it ranks #3,539 of 22,440.

  • National personnel rank #3,539 of 22,440
  • ID personnel rank #18 of 152
  • 3.85 stations per 100 personnel
  • EMS provider (HIFLD)
  • 7 other listed departments in Canyon County

Caldwell Fire and Rescue vs. the national personnel distribution

Where this department's HIFLD-reported staffing sits among every listable U.S. fire department

52 Top 16% higher than 84% of 22,440 departments

Listable U.S. fire departments, banded by total personnel

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Source HIFLD fire-station registry · 2026-09-06

Dispatch plate

Sheet 27211 · Caldwell Fire and Rescue, ID 52 personnel · 2 stations

PERS-MID · STA-FEW · TYPE-CAREER · EMS-Y · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · FEMA-NONE · BOOK-FULL

  • PERS-MID 52
  • STA-FEW 2 stations
  • TYPE-CAREER Career
  • EMS-Y EMS on file
  • RANK-UPPER #3,539
  • PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Saint Louis Park
  • FEMA-NONE No AFG/SAFER
  • BOOK-FULL 4/5 fields

Nearest personnel peer: Saint Louis Park Fire Department, MN (+ 0 personnel)

Career/paid HIFLD roster counts, station rows, EMS flag, listable personnel rank, photo-finish peer, and FEMA AFG/SAFER book for this FDID, not a readiness rating.

Personnel neighbourhood

Nationwide HIFLD headcount poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every ID department.

Department Profile

Type
MOSTLY CAREER
Location
Caldwell, ID
FDID
27211

Staffing vs the Idaho average

How Caldwell Fire and Rescue's personnel count compares to the typical department in Idaho. In-state it ranks #18 of 152 by personnel among listable departments with reported staffing. Nationally it ranks #3,539 of 22,440 on the same basis as the largest-departments ranking.

▲ 206% above the state average
Stations
2
State fire deaths/yr
23
ID departments
292

County staffing outlier

Career (Paid) island in a volunteer-heavy Canyon County

County mix is mostly volunteer (4 volunteer / 2 career / 0 combination), while this page is typed career. County / state rollup.

3.85 stations per 100 HIFLD personnel (2 stations / 52 roster).

Photo-finish peer: Saint Louis Park Fire Department, MN (+0 personnel).

No FEMA AFG/SAFER awards on this FDID in USAspending (empty federal book).

Nearby Departments

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Nationwide career peers near 52 personnel

Photo-finish and same-type HIFLD neighbours for this FDID, not a reprint of every ID department.